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Engineering notation is similar to scientific notation, with the constraint that the power of ten must be a multiple of 3 (or -3) or zero.
Example: 1. x 102 = 100. x 100
The advantage of engineering notation, is that moving between different metric prefixes (such as kilo-, mega-, giga-, milli-, micro-, nano-) is easier, because they change by a factor of 103.
So in the example above with 1. x 102, if the units were megawatts, and you wanted to see how many kilowatts that was, it is easier with Engineering Notation than scientific. 100. x 100 megawatts = 100. x 103 kilowatts
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What is 293000 in scientific notation?
2.93E5, or 2.95 times 10 to the 5th power. The difference between "scientific notation" and "engineering notation" is that scientific notation generally has one digit before the decimal point and can have any exponent, while engineering notation uses exponents divisible by 3; so, 3, 6, 9, 12 and so on. So in "engineering notation", this number would be 293 times 10 to the 3rd power, or 0.293 times ten to the sixth power.
What is 0.00001 in engineering notation?
In engineering notation, 0.00001 is written as 10^-5.
How do you change a number to a engineering notation?
326*104
Is 35.9x10x23 a valid example for scientific notation?
No, that is engineering notation. 3.59 X 10^24 is the same number in scientific notation.
What is 209000 in engineering notation?
In engineering notation 209 x 10³ or 0.209 x 10^6 would be the most likely used powers of 10. In scientific notation it would be 2.09 x 10^5
